Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd.

15 pending office actions • 13 art units • 15 examiners • 5 of 15 (33%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

1
Hard (7%)
12
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (7%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (7%)
§103 only10 (67%)
§102 only2 (13%)
§112 only1 (7%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
7% of docket
10
Information Tech
67% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WALKER, JARED T 1 84.7% +10.1%
JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 1 55.4% +22.2%
BENNETT, STUART D 1 69.3% -15.2%
RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR 1 76.0% +12.4%
HANSELL JR., RICHARD A 1 76.0% +27.6%
GART, MATTHEW S 1 9.1% +14.8%
MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 1 67.7% +27.3%
MRABI, HASSAN 1 78.1% +33.6%
HENSON, BRANDON JAMES 1 71.2% +31.2%
ATTEY, JOEL M 1 64.4% +43.7%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19008505 RELATIVE DIFFERENCE METRIC FOR FRAME CODING AND TWO-STAGE TRAINING FOR GENERATIVE FACE VIDEO COMPRESSION WALKER, JARED T 9d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18177422 UNIVERSAL RANDOMIZED BENCHMARKING MRABI, HASSAN 26d overdue
18516730 DIGITAL AVATAR RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM GART, MATTHEW S 8d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18171259 RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATION METHOD, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HENSON, BRANDON JAMES 103d overdue
18551951 CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 98d overdue
18146166 CONTAINER DATA CENTER, EDGE DATA CENTER, AND WORKING METHOD ATTEY, JOEL M 30d overdue
18177422 UNIVERSAL RANDOMIZED BENCHMARKING MRABI, HASSAN 26d overdue
19008505 RELATIVE DIFFERENCE METRIC FOR FRAME CODING AND TWO-STAGE TRAINING FOR GENERATIVE FACE VIDEO COMPRESSION WALKER, JARED T 9d overdue
18987616 CROSS COMPONENT PREDICTION OF CHROMA SAMPLES JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 9d overdue
18516730 DIGITAL AVATAR RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM GART, MATTHEW S 8d overdue
18399650 INTRA TEMPLATE MATCHING PREDICTION MODE FOR MOTION PREDICTION HANSELL JR., RICHARD A 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2426 2
2145 2
2400 1
2481 1
2486 1
3696 1
2454 1
2147 1
3645 1
3763 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19008505 RELATIVE DIFFERENCE METRIC FOR FRAME CODING AND TWO-STAGE TRAINING FOR GENERATIVE FACE VIDEO COMPRESSION WALKER, JARED T 2426 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jan 02, 2025
18987616 CROSS COMPONENT PREDICTION OF CHROMA SAMPLES JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 2400 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue AI Ready Dec 19, 2024
18748659 LIGHTWEIGHT SPATIAL UPSAMPLING METHODS FOR MACHINE VISION BENNETT, STUART D 2481 §102 Non-Final OA 57d AI Ready Jun 20, 2024
18616964 MOTION COMPENSATION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR 2426 §103 Final Rejection 75d AI Ready Mar 26, 2024
18399650 INTRA TEMPLATE MATCHING PREDICTION MODE FOR MOTION PREDICTION HANSELL JR., RICHARD A 2486 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 28, 2023
18516730 DIGITAL AVATAR RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM GART, MATTHEW S 3696 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
18551951 CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 2454 §112 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18177422 UNIVERSAL RANDOMIZED BENCHMARKING MRABI, HASSAN 2147 §101 Non-Final OA 26d overdue AI Ready Mar 02, 2023
18171259 RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATION METHOD, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HENSON, BRANDON JAMES 3645 §102 Non-Final OA 103d overdue Pending Feb 17, 2023
18146166 CONTAINER DATA CENTER, EDGE DATA CENTER, AND WORKING METHOD ATTEY, JOEL M 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2022
17866194 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING WITH WEIGHT SPARSITY KIM, HARRISON CHAN YOUNG 2145 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2022
17804664 POLYNOMIAL-TIME LINEAR CROSS-ENTROPY BENCHMARKING SHALU, ZELALEM W 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue AI Ready May 31, 2022
17725354 Genome Feature Extraction Method, Disease Prediction Method, Apparatus and Device MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L 1685 Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending Apr 20, 2022
17717111 SERVER AND ACCELERATOR FOR NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATIONS WAJE, CARLO C 2151 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Apr 10, 2022
17670394 SUBSTRATE, CHIP, CIRCUIT PACKAGE AND FABRICATION PROCESS SAWYER, STEVEN T 2847 §103 Final Rejection 114d overdue Pending Feb 11, 2022

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